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The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office is asking residents to be on guard for possible card skimmers on local gas pumps.
Skimmers are electronic devices that “skim” information from credit and debit card magnetic strips when the cards are swiped.
The sheriff’s office issued the “skimmer alert” on its Facebook page Tuesday afternoon.

Marie Cunningham watched quietly through a cloud of smoke as her childhood home burned Wednesday afternoon, just 30 yards or so from the house where she now lives.
The fire crept closer and closer across the yard, but firefighters extinguished it before it got to her home.
Kershaw, Heath Springs and Rich Hill volunteer fire departments, along with Lancaster County Fire Rescue, responded to the fire at 7768 Molasses Rd., Kershaw, shortly before 2:30 p.m.

The room smelled like coffee and sausage biscuits, and nearly everyone there wore a cap with a military designation.
About 20 men, most middle-aged and older, gathered at this week’s Veterans Coffee Club, which has started meeting at 521 BBQ on Main Street in Lancaster.
An expansion of the Indian Land club, the coffee club meets at 8 a.m. every Tuesday.
“We’ve all got something in common,” Marine veteran Jim Campbell said. “Now we get a chance to come in here and chew the fat and just talk about old times.”

Two incidents of potential gun violence at Chesterfield Schools have followed the Feb. 14 fatal shootings at a Florida high school.
In each case, threats were made but no guns were brought to Chesterfield schools, officials said.
On Thursday, an administrator overheard a student threatening to bring a gun to Chesterfield-Rudy Middle School, according to the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office.

The Lancaster County school board on Saturday voted to accept a $90.4 million construction bid for the new Indian Land High School – $10 million more than originally expected.
The board intends to award the bid to Cleveland Construction of Charlotte after a 15-day protest period for other bidders.
School district officials had estimated in 2016 that the construction would cost $80.9 million. The Charlotte-area’s booming construction market contributed to the higher cost, as did the district’s decision to make the building larger than planned.

Indian Land incorporation organizers have reported that about 100 roadside political signs are missing, and the group’s spokesman blamed a “coordinated effort” by the opposition.
But the main anti-incorporation group rejected that assertion, saying they would never do such a thing.
Voters for a Town of Indian Land President Richard Dole told a sheriff’s deputy Feb. 2 that he’d received numerous complaints about his group’s “Vote Yes” signs being missing.

Mayor John Howard is in good spirits and his medical condition is improving, according to a website his daughter created to update the community on his progress.
Shelley Robinson wrote that Howard, surrounded by family, is using both a breathing tube and a feeding tube, and he has lost 50 pounds since entering the hospital Jan. 16. But he has been able to maneuver out of bed into a chair and begin physical therapy, she said.